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link-baiting

link-baiting is the alternative spelling of linkbaiting.

Meaning of linkbaiting

Noun

linkbaiting (countable and uncountable, plural linkbaitings)

  1. The practice of creating content that attracts a lot of inbound links and generates buzz.
    • In its simplest form, linkbaiting is the practice of creating content with the intent of generating incoming links from outside sources. Linkbaiting is sometimes perceived as being unethical because inbound links are one of the primary ways a search engine gauges how hey they will rank a website2009, Mitch Joel, Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone., Hachette, →ISBN

Forms of link-baiting

plurallink-baitings

Questions about link-baiting

What is link-baiting the alternative spelling of?
Link-baiting is the alternative spelling of linkbaiting.

Words near link-baiting in the dictionary

  1. link whores
  2. link whoring
  3. link worker
  4. link workers
  5. link-bait
  6. link-baiting
  7. link-dead
  8. link-language
  9. link-languages
  10. link-up
  11. link-ups

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Adapted from Wiktionary: link-baiting (page history and authors); linkbaiting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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